The Enormity of Experience

Language is a very powerful tool that can be used in many manners through the use of pathetic, logical, and ethical tropes, schemes and other language tool that we learned in class this semester. As powerful as language is, I don't think it can capture the enormity of experience. By actually experiencing something remarkable and formulating your own thoughts and feeling your own feelings is unlike anything that you could ever tell me or I could ever write about to you. There is a reason that people state all the time that "you had to be there" or "you really do need to experience that." There is so much setting and aura that is present when actually experiencing something that just can't be captured by language. As hard as the author may try to paint a picture to his or her audience those details that were forgotten or just overlooked that definitely contributed to the actual experience will never be shared. If I tried to tell you right now about what happened and how I felt being at the Milwaukee Brewers first playoff win in over 25 years, I could write for hours just recalling every detail that I remembered from that day a year and a half ago. You could read or listen to me babble on for hours and even if you were attentive the whole entire time, you would probably just scratch the surface of my experience of actually being at the game. Language can help to formulate pictures, but the imagined picture will never actually match up to the still frame that the creator of the message has engrained in their mind. Every last language tool in the book can be used, but language cannot fully capture experience.